Flatiron offers underrepresented students fast track to good jobs

PBS’s Paul Solman visits Flatiron to talk to students with unexpected paths to tech – including a college dropout reinventing her career and a mother returning to the workforce after raising her children – and explores how this bootcamp is increasing diversity in the industry.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio shares Flatiron alum’s career transformation

Supporting his family on minimum wage, George Taveras “needed a break through… and he found [Flatiron’s] NYC Web Development Fellowship. With that training, George was able to transform his life. Today, this community college-dropout with limited prospects is making $75,000 a year in his tech job.”

Flatiron and Re:Coded Teach Refugees How to Code

“[Refugees] face a huge challenge: finding work in a foreign country with an unfamiliar language. But there’s one school that aims to give refugees a running start by teaching them a universal language: the language of coding.”